Kapost reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(65 total reviews)
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Toby Murdock

67% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Kapost has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 65 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Kapost employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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65 reviews
5.0
May 16, 2016

Healthy culture- great ideas inside

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Pros

Transparent to the core. Management takes feedback eagerly and is very genuine in their relationship to employees.

Cons

Management has some difficulty with focus because there is a lot of uncertainty in the business sector. Too much of the business is driven by heroics.

1.0
May 16, 2016

Immature organization that is trying all the wrong things

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Pros

Dog friendly, good location, lots of fun. You don’t really feel like you are going to a workplace, but rather a building where you are going to go and hang out with your friends. (I guess this can be a pro or a con) Lots of smart people who know the basics, but there is a knowledge gap that impact how the staff takes the basics to the next level. Great if you are a marketer who wants to learn more about marketing. The company is good at pivoting but is really trying all the wrong things.

Cons

In a nut shell the company is suffering from very poor inexperienced leadership. This of course leads to to poor leaders picking poor staff and not knowing how to train and grow them. They don’t know what they don’t know and they do not welcome anyone advising or trying to help them. The more experienced people are not leveraged enough and have been told to basically stick to what they have been hired for. There is a lot of middle management hired to compensate for poor less experienced hires, I would estimate only 50% of people’s skills are being leveraged which has lead to over hiring and in my experience with start ups a waste of money. The recent layoffs were probably needed but many talented people were let go and the more average folks were kept. I suspect this had something to do with salary ranges. This company also makes everything too complicated, it’s a simple SaaS model that - with a solid product - should be simple to deploy and support. At this point the over complications are compensating for a product that does not solve a big industry problem. HR was more focused on fun and making friends rather then building an environment that cultivates and grows talent. There are little or no growth opportunities, but this seems to work for a majority of the staff. If I had to characterize most of the employees I would say they are only really doing what is needed to get by, there seems to be no desire to grow or go above and beyond. The lack of overall passion is very uncharacteristic of the typical employees of a start up I have experienced in the past. Summing it up the employees are pretty average, but with the management being so poor I guess that is expected. In my time here I have seen most of the experienced folks leave which at first did not bother me, but as I am seeing more and more I can now understand why.

1.0
May 14, 2016

Keep looking

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Pros

If you love learning about marketing, and how content is driving buyers forward in their journey this is a great place for an on the job "MBA"

Cons

This startup is a high risk, low reward for sales reps.

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